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Yay!!!

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You ALL rock!! SOOOO many people were praying for Adam yesterday and we both thank you immensely. I was able to get him into another specialist and things were changed up a bit. We are very thankful there is no tear to the retina or iris as that was initially a thought after I spoke with an opthalmoligist that specializes in burns to the eyes (he wasn’t available yesterday but WAS super nice and visited with me on the phone).

Last night when he held out his arms his wedding ring was blurry (of course I was just glad at least he could see it so he KNOWS it is there…teasing). He was having difficulty focusing even on a computer screen or a text message on his cell. BUT, today is a different story…MUCH improved he says. He is blessed, we are blessed and he wants me to tell you that he thanks you for all of your prayers.

Undoubtedly there will most likely be some damage with loss of vision but we are hoping for minimal minimal minimal so we’ll continue to hold on and wait and see. If anything gets worse again this weekend he will see that burn specialist on Monday.

Blessings to you all!!!

Shana & Adam

a little giggle for your day:

The blonde went to the eye doctor to have her eyes checked for glasses. The doctor directed her to read various letters with the left eye while covering the right eye.

The blonde was so mixed up on which eye was which that the eye doctor in disgust took a paper sack with a hole to see through, covered up the appropriate eye and asked her to read the letters.

As he did so, he noticed the blonde had tears streaming down her face.

“Look”, said the doctor, “there’s no need to get emotional about getting glasses.”

“I know”, agreed the blonde, “but I kind of had my heart set on wire frames.”

Please say a prayer

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Good morning all~

Just a quick note to ask you to say a prayer for Adam this morning. His left eye has taken a turn for the worse. He says his vision is 75% worse this morning than it was before we went to bed last night and that he can only see a foot at the most in front of him. I am working to try and find a different/better specialist for him to see. There is a specialist that works on patients with burns to their eyes specifically but he isn’t available today!!! Ugh!

Dancing in the rain

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Just a quick update on Adam. He is doing great!!! He was started on steroid on Monday and they have made the world of difference…he has eyes in there still people! And, better yet he can open them and is seeing pretty darn good. His left eye is still a little fuzzy at times and they are still “a little” sore he says. He actually has teeny little shiners now under each eye.

Mainly, though, he is celebrating his sight. Every once in awhile he’ll tell me…”look at me” and I’ll be all like I’m looking at you~is something wrong and he says he just wanted to look because he can. He told me last night that while it was raining yesterday he went outside and played with one of the dogs in the rain “because I could see the rain”. He keeps saying “I see you”.

Regarding his skin..he just says he always wondered what a chemical peel would be like. He is starting to peel a little bit and it is like dealing with a toddler keeping him from picking at it!

Thank you for all of your prayers~they definitely made a difference~

Good News & Pure Bliss

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Good news all around…but we never doubted that we would hear anything different now did we?! The specialist says Adam should have a full recovery (yippee!), he started him on steroids and Adam already says they feel even better tonite. He should actually hopefully be able to return to work within a couple of days. Like I said in a previous post: We. Are. Blessed.

On an entire different note but a much deserved one, we don’t have showers yet here in the house. Both bathrooms with the showers are ALMOST done but not quite. We DO, however have the jacuzzi tub in and just got the jets started the end of last week. I have been soooooo looking forward to this for over two years…literally, people. When we were in Hawaii two years ago last May I bought this bottle of bath stuff from one of the spas we were at because I couldn’t wait to use it in our “new jacuzzi tub”! Well…two years and some odd months later I finally got to try it tonite.

I started hollering and Adam comes in and found me like this…of course having the common sense that he has (and that I lack) he asks me how much did I put in. I just poured “a little bit” and then I look at it and it says 3 capfuls….and this would be 3 capfuls probably in a NORMAL bath not a jacuzzi but hey, I’m a learnin’.

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And, folks….these weren’t your typical Mr. Bubble bubbles from when we were kids that just bubbled up for a brief enough period of time to tease you and then dissolved away. These were the real deal. One could make like bubble castles and stuff.

By the way, the stuff was worth the wait, it smelled VERY good too!

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Another near miss~Another BLESSING

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So, I just love starting out by saying so…last month Adam had an accident at home that I guess I didn’t blog about, not sure why. 1050lbs (yes, that is 1.0.5.0!!!!) of sheet rock fell on him, pinning his lower body. He was able to reach his cell phone and just started calling people. He called me first~not sure why as my muscles wouldn’t have helped but he did, the sweetheart. I was seeing a patient though so didn’t answer the phone. He called a couple of other people and happened to get a friend of ours to answer the phone who, thank God, was only two blocks away. He came charging into the house and single handedly was able to lift the sheet rock off of Adam…talk about adrenalin. We are amazed to this day. We were so blessed that it didn’t snap his legs, crush his pelvis. All it did is cause a TON of bruising and muscle pain/cramps. His flanks (lower back) were beat up too from where he fell backwards on a table when the sheet rock fell on him. But, in the end he was okay and we thank Him for that!

Fast forward, Kalia could have been killed rather than just the broken bones and lung contusion. We thank Him for that as well.

Fast forward to this past Saturday. Adam went to a wedding a couple of hours away (I wasn’t with him) and when he got to the reception hall he noticed some steam coming from under the hood of his car. His battery exploded into his face. They were 20 minutes from the nearest hospital so they irrigated his face and eyes like crazy there before a couple of friends and a nurse that was there took off with him to the er.

This is the call none of us like to get. “Shana, first…I want you to know that Adam is okay but there was a little accident”. They took him to Grand Island, three hours from me, 30 minutes from my sister so I called her and she went to join him and I took off like a wet diaper!

We. Are. Blessed. Adam has mostly just first degree burns to his face, with only a few small areas that are second degree. We think his left eye was exposed to more acid than the right as it is more painful and he actually has a second degree burn on that eyelid. His eyes, of course, were the area of biggest concern and remain so today.

They irrigated and irrigated again and again and did ph testing on his eyes and let us leave the er late Saturday evening. I was so thankful my sister came~it was great to have her there. After we got Adam settled into the car I stepped behind the car and proceeded to ralph up the two cans of mountain dew I drank on the way there. We’d had a rough couple of days prior to this anyways so I didn’t feel good to begin with and then worrying I guess is what led to that ralphing. At any rate, this proceeded to occur periodically on our way home. We were undoubtedly a sorry site I am sure. Poor Adam couldn’t open his eyes so he was car sick and then there I am swerving to the side of the insterstate at random times to spew, making his stomach even more queasy. But, we made it. We made it home in the middle of the night and boy, was it a sweet sight…for me anyways. =0)

They are swollen shut~we can open them manually, the left one with much pain. He says his right eye is clear and his left eye is blurry. Yesterday morning when we opened them to put the ointment and he saw for the first time his first words were “you’re just as pretty as I remember” (what a schmoozer).

The whites of his eyes are completely red and swollen as well. We are putting an ointment in frequently and he is on oral pain medicine. We are going to a specialist today to see what to do next. I really think he’ll recover fully and am so very thankful for this.

So, once again we thank Him for this.

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getting ready to do more irrigating

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Irrigating

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